BA First Year (Sem 1 & 2) Political Science – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)

📅 26 October 2026 · 10 questions · based on the Maharashtra university syllabus

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1. Which of the following is NOT one of the four essential elements of the State?

   Chapter 3: The State: Meaning and Elements

   • APopulation
   • BTerritory
   • CPolitical party
   • DSovereignty
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   Answer: C. Political party
   Population, territory, government and sovereignty are the four essential elements; a political party is not one of them.

2. Who wrote 'Leviathan', describing life in the state of nature as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'?

   Chapter 4: Theories of the Origin of the State

   • AJohn Locke
   • BThomas Hobbes
   • CJ. J. Rousseau
   • DJean Bodin
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   Answer: B. Thomas Hobbes
   Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan (1651) and used this picture of the state of nature to justify an absolute sovereign.

3. Who gave the legal (monistic) theory of sovereignty, which holds that law is the command of the sovereign?

   Chapter 6: Sovereignty

   • AJohn Austin
   • BHarold Laski
   • CT. H. Green
   • DMontesquieu
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   Answer: A. John Austin
   John Austin gave the legal monistic theory; Laski was a pluralist critic of it.

4. Which of these is NOT one of Max Weber's three types of authority?

   Chapter 8: Power and Authority

   • ATraditional authority
   • BCharismatic authority
   • CLegal-rational authority
   • DCoercive authority
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   Answer: D. Coercive authority
   Weber's three types are traditional, charismatic and legal-rational; coercion is not one of them.

5. Who wrote the famous book on liberty titled 'On Liberty'?

   Chapter 9: Liberty

   • AJeremy Bentham
   • BHegel
   • CJ. S. Mill
   • DAristotle
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   Answer: C. J. S. Mill
   J. S. Mill wrote On Liberty (1859), where he set out the harm principle.

6. Whose theory is 'Justice as Fairness', with the idea of the 'veil of ignorance'?

   Chapter 12: Justice

   • ARobert Nozick
   • BPlato
   • CKarl Marx
   • DJohn Rawls
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   Answer: D. John Rawls
   John Rawls set out justice as fairness and the veil of ignorance in A Theory of Justice (1971).

7. T. H. Marshall described the rights of citizenship in which three parts?

   Chapter 13: Citizenship

   • ACivil, political and social rights
   • BEconomic, cultural and religious rights
   • CNatural, moral and legal rights
   • DFundamental rights, directive principles and duties
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   Answer: A. Civil, political and social rights
   Marshall said citizenship grew through civil, political and social rights.

8. Who gave the famous definition of democracy as 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'?

   Chapter 16: Democracy

   • AGeorge Washington
   • BAbraham Lincoln
   • CJ. S. Mill
   • DWinston Churchill
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   Answer: B. Abraham Lincoln
   Abraham Lincoln used these words in his Gettysburg Address (1863).

9. In which form of government is the council of ministers (executive) collectively responsible to the legislature?

   Chapter 17: Forms of Government: Unitary, Federal, Parliamentary and Presidential

   • APresidential system
   • BParliamentary system
   • CAbsolute monarchy
   • DMilitary rule
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   Answer: B. Parliamentary system
   In a parliamentary system the ministry is collectively responsible to the legislature; in a presidential system the executive is separate from it.

10. In the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, which candidate wins?

    Chapter 18: Representation and Electoral Systems

    • AOnly one who gets more than 50% of the votes
    • BThe one the party nominates
    • CThe one with the most votes, even without a majority
    • DThe one who gets seats in proportion to votes
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    Answer: C. The one with the most votes, even without a majority
    Under FPTP the candidate with the highest number of votes wins; more than half the votes is not needed.

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